Twitter to Find Guests

Here is an interesting article about a service that scans Twitter to find guests for your hotel.

Hotels can already turn to Revinate for help with social media in general, but Reach.ly is a new service focused specifically on finding potential new guests. Toward that end, Reach.ly monitors Twitter for mentions of planned trips and allows hotels to reach out to visitors who are heading their way.

New Noosa iPad App

The Noosa Tourism people have launched an new iPhone and iPad app. It looks pretty good to me. A great way to market Noosa. You can get it here.

Outrigger Noosa

This weekend I visited the new Outrigger at Noosa. It is located on Little Hastings Street. I did not like it at all. It was very quiet -- not many people around, and it had a desolate feeling, unlike the bustle of Hastings Street. It was a long walk to the beach and to the restaurants, down hill. So the walk back was exhausting. You feel like you are staying in a carpark in a rainforest, not a beach resort.

My favourite place to stay in Brisbane

When I need to recommend a place for people to stay in Brisbane, I strongly recommend Quay West, on Alice Street overlooking the Botanical Gardens. It is near QUT.

Consistently rated as a top hotel in Brisbane on TripAdvisor.

One and two bedroom suites, with daily service and room service. Pool, gym, restaurant. Large balcony. Great location and great views from all suites. The one bedroom suites have kitchen, large living area with desk, laundry room, bathroom and large bedroom. Two modern flat screen TVs. The nicest pool in Brisbane. Operated by Mirvac.
Book here.

I like this

I like these two websites:

Romantic Noosa

http://brisbanesuites.blogspot.com/

Mooloolaba

In my opinion, the best hotel on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland is Oceans Mooloolaba, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean at Mooloolaba Beach.

This hotel is more than just a hotel. It is really an apartment building, run like a hotel. It is about a year old, so very fresh.

Every suite has fantastic views of the Pacific Ocean.

The suites are really 2 bedroom or 3 bedroom apartments. Each can sleep at least four people. In each suite there are two bathrooms, a full kitchen, a living room (which a huge plasma TV), a dining room, laundry area, and balcony.